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Bug 330884

Summary:	[preferences] Default Color of "Annotations - Occurrences" is too bright
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	andreasbossard+eclipse
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, pwebster
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description andreasbossard+eclipse

2010-11-23 02:37:47 EST

Build Identifier: 20090621-0832

This is a very small change, but which would improve the usability a lot.

Make the annotation "occurences" in the vertical ruler darker so that people older than 25 years also can see the occurences-annotiations. ;-)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a Java-File
2. Click on a variable
3. In the vertical ruler you can see all the occurences of the variable in the file

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2010-11-23 03:18:19 EST

I'm sorry but the current colors have been chosen and tested widely. Of course each color has some "enemies", that's why it's a preference. There are no plans to change a well known color that's in use for a long time.

Comment 2 andreasbossard+eclipse

2010-11-23 06:10:46 EST

Hi Dani

> Of course each color has some "enemies"

It's not about if I like the color or not. It's about whether it's easy to spot on the vertical ruler. It's definitely not easy to spot on the vertical ruler. (I can upload a screenshot if you want me to)


So since this is not going to change I see 2 possibilities:

-fiddle around with the contrast-settings of my screen

-change the color in the preferences
--> Can you give me a hint how I can change this preference for all Eclipse-Instances and all workspaces? I would be grateful.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2010-11-23 06:16:34 EST

> on the vertical ruler. It's definitely not easy to spot on the vertical ruler.
> (I can upload a screenshot if you want me to)
I know how it looks ;-) We chose a non-intrusive color on purpose because there can be many occurrence annotations in a class.

> -change the color in the preferences
> --> Can you give me a hint how I can change this preference for all
> Eclipse-Instances and all workspaces? I would be grateful.
The instances are not important as all the settings are in your workspaces. You either have to change the color one by one or import the preference(s) into each workspace.